( May 18, 2026, 2:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a May 18 order list noting that Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh would grant review, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) concerning a special financial assistance (SFA) program; the petition highlighted a projection “that opening the SFA program to terminated multiemployer plans . . . would result in the payment of about $6 billion more than would otherwise be distributed through the program,” but the respondent countered that it believes no other terminated fund has been restored the same way it claims to have been and that letting the ruling stand would not result in “dire” consequences for the PBGC....